What does the left want?

[elduderino38]

Originally Posted by jessica1000

1)Wouldn't the 'affordable healthcare' lead to a larger goverment?

Government interference and regulations are at the root of the problem. Why? Because lobbyists, soft money, etc influence our politicians and the industry gets what it wants. Tricky Dick gave us HMO's because they promised higher profits for less service. And delivered.

[RedNC]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roamer

Is that so wrong? What does any participant in politics want?

Right wrong?

Power is all they want.
It doesn’t take 6 pages of useless wording to answer a simple question when one word says it all. POWER

[saganista]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roamer

Is that so wrong? What does any participant in politics want?

Even participating in politics doesn't enter into it. There isn't anyone, perhaps outside of a few outright masochists, who wants to be powerless, or who, already being relatively powerless, wishes to become even more powerless.

In some sense, power may be considered in the same category as food, water, and sex. Everyone aspires to some level of these things. The problems arise when people drive right by the levels that most people find altogether suitable and decide that they will pursue as much of these things as they can possibly get...

[elduderino38]

Originally Posted by saganista

Reminder: The rights of lobbyists are protected by the First Amendment. You have the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. You can fly to Washington and do it yourself. You can buy a plane ticket for someone else and have that person come deliver your message for you. You can even join forces with a group of similarly minded people and use your combined resources to hire a full-time person to live in Washington and deliver that message to lawmakers for you every day. That person would be a lobbyist...

Thanks, you are right

Its obvious though, that those with big money have the ears of the government. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. I have little hope though - could we ever expect a crooked system to regulate itself?